Body camera video shows fight that caused county-wide call for backup at local hotel

New video shows the moments that led up to a county-wide call for help at a hotel in Vandalia over the weekend.

As reported on News Center 7 at 6:00, police went to the Hawthorn Suites on Poe Avenue and met a man identified as Christian Thomas.

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He told police that he wanted his pregnant, intoxicated girlfriend, identified as India Trapps, to leave a party.

“She’s in there intoxicated as (expletive), I know at the end of these parties there be drama, there be dumb (expletive)… nothing else but me trying to get my baby mother home,” Thomas said…

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